Monday, August 04, 2008

The Torso

While it sounds like a good, juicy, gory murder novel, let me explain...

About three weeks ago, we had a rip-snorter of a storm, and yards all over the neighborhood were full of downed tree limbs. We only had the "flags" of cicada damage blowing around (when the female cicada lays her eggs, she cuts into the skin of small tree limbs, and after the larvae have dropped out, the limbs die and fall off during the next storm).Our neighbors lost one third of a multi-trunk maple, and we shamelessly asked for some of it to toss into the prairie to add some habitat.

This is the piece they gave us.....named "The Torso":Kinda looks like a pair of pants, doesn't it?(Mike, our neighbor, named this arty piece. It's nice to have a neighbor with a sense of humor. We like Mike.)

*Those who have noticed that I haven't been the Blogging-Dynamo lately, rest assured that all is well....we are just busy preparing for our Big Trip*

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A Glossary for newcomers to the blog:

"Embrace your Inner Sheep": You'll just have to read back a ways for the explanation of that one.

FTS (Also known as F*** the Swainsons): When you just cannot, under any circumstances, get out and look at another bird today. That's it. I don't care what it is. F*** the Swainsons!

The Flock: A group of women (and a few men thrown in for good measure) who met here in Cyberspace and now travel together to birding festivals. We are unique in this because birders don't usually travel in "packs".

Learning Lemur: (See Science Chimp)

RAPTOR: A Cincinnati-based rehab center for birds of prey (also where I work)

Science Chimp: A term coined by Julie Zickefoose. Meaning anyone who sees something nature-oriented (whether it be scat or bones or the scene of a predator strike) and MUST figure out the circumstances. There is much grunting and "eep-eep-eeping" involved in a full-on Science Chimp display. Someone who is learning the art of Chimping can be called a "Learning Lemur".

"Squeee!": This is a noise you make when something is so cute or perfect, no other word will do.

"What? Lynne has herpes?": What your blogger heard and said during a quiet moment at an owl prowl when someone said that Lynne (Hasty Brook) has groupies.